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IBM opens fourth Australian data centre

Increased demand for Watson and Bluemix.

IBM has opened its fourth Australian data centre to meet growing demand for locally hosted cloud service Bluemix as well as the Watson cognitive computing platform.

Big Blue is hosting the point of presence in the 6MW Erskine Park, Sydney facility run by co-location provider Digital Realty. The data centre joins IBM's three existing Australian cloud data centres in Sydney and Melbourne.

Onshore hosting is important "because we know our enterprise clients want to keep their data local", according to Tony Armfield, vice president cloud for IBM Australia and New Zealand.

"More and more Australian organisations are tapping into the IBM cloud to gain a competitive edge in the cognitive era thanks to IBM’s combination of industry expertise, cognitive solutions and a data-first approach," he said.

He claimed IBM had the edge as an enterprise-grade cloud provider because it offers "a complete set" of cloud server choices – bare metal, private and public VMs – all of which are certified under the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).

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